Toyota Park sits in the southwestern suburb of Bridgeview. It is not the place you would normally expect to find rock and roll legends jamming with some of the finest blues players around. It is also not the place you would think you would find some of the best guitar playing around, and yet, this […]
Finding the blues on Chicago radio can be a bit tricky. I honestly do not know of any stations dedicated to JUST the blues. Maybe because that would just be too much misery for 24 hours of solid broadcast.
There are some stations that have blues-related shows. One of them is a guy who has been […]
There are just some names in the world of Jazz that bring about feelings of awe and respect. Some of them are probably names you know. Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker Thelonius Monk and even Jelly Roll Morton may come to mind for you. The name of Charles Mingus should also be […]
Since I somehow ended up dedicating all of last week’s posts to the jazz scene, I felt it was only appropriate to spend this week checking out various blues-related activities.
Chicago, however, is such a blues town, that I could spend nearly twenty-four hours just listing blues performances.
Still, some of you may be planning a blues […]
We do live in amazing times. These days, really, with the internet and things like MySpace and Facebook and blogs, there is no celebrity who is too out of reach. These days, you can almost literally reach out and touch your favorite star whether that star is a musician, movie star or television star.
For example, […]
I wanted to point you to another blogger in our arsenal here. It’s a great story about being married to a jazz musician.
Hey, you can always stand to learn about another Jazz musician, plus it’s a great reminder about the iPod contest that b5media is holding.
Click here for a link to the story about Jazz […]
I guess some may argue that Buddy Guy’s Legends has almost become too big. I guess I can almost agree with that. There are some who want their Blues Clubs so dark you can barely see the stage. They probably also would prefer them filled with smoke and want the performers to sit with their […]
I thought I would close out my week dedicated to jazz events in and around Chicago with a quick list of some of the events at some of the key places around town. Needless to say, this is but a small sampling. There are so many places if you include the suburbs, a complete list […]
In the city of Chicago, your broadcasting options for good jazz is very limited. The NPR station, WBEZ, that used to broadcast classic jazz during the overnight hours, has since closed up shop.
There is WNUA, which is a Smooth Jazz station. However, I have never been as big a fan of Smooth Jazz as I […]
This is the problem with trying to cover a musical genre with the scope jazz and blues has in the Chicago area alone. Any attempt to cover this music on a nationwide basis would take a staff of hundreds, I think. Had I known about this gig sooner, well, I would have posted […]
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